Boy Meets The Door | You Don't Actually Like Japan. You Like the Idea of It.

You don't actually like Japan. You like cherry blossoms, Ghibli skies, and a very specific version of Japan the internet decided was THE Japan. Before I started actually learning the language and found the word that broke the filter. This is what "loving a culture" costs you when you only ever meet its export.FREE: Field Notes — my weekly letter from inside the learning → boymeetseast.com/newsletterPodcast: East of Everything on Apple/SpotifyNewsletter: boymeetseast.com/newsletterCommunity: The Clubhouse on DiscordSite: boymeetseast.com#Japan #EastAsianCulture #BoyMeetsEast